Switch to wayland?

[pixel24]

Hi@all,

I use LM 20.2 with Cinnamon Desktop and would like to test Wayland. Where can I switch this to test? On the web I only find hints for Ubuntu -> cogwheel in login manager.

with best
pixel24

[kc1di]

As far as I know there is no way at present to run wayland on Mint. So if you want to test it you'll have to try it on ubuntu, fedora or the distro that includes it.

[fblais]

Debian with the Gnome DE also uses Wayland by default.

[JosephM]

There is a lot of misunderstanding when it comes to Wayland judging by a lot of questions and responses I see here on the forums. Wayland is not implemented at the distro level. It's done at the desktop environment level. Currently none of the DE's shipped by default with Mint (cinnamon, mate, xfce) support Wayland. You can however install gnome-shell and shell's Wayland session if you want to run that. But keep in mind that it will not work if you have Nvidia graphics. And it might be easier if you just want to test to install one of the distros mentioned above.

[pixel24]

I got the idea to test it when I read in an article (on Heise, German IT-News) that the nVIDIA driver v470... now supports Wayland.

By testing I meant: "I flip a switch in the system" ..... Apparently this is not the case. Then I wait until LM switches to Wayland.

Thanks for the info

[Kreative]

When I switched to Linux, back in 2017, I went with Fedora Design Suite that used GNOME 3 on F25... I quickly changed Wayland to Xorg if I wanted graphic software to work. So like a Waylon Jennings song... take this _ and shove it. Besides, I'm holding out for 'Willie', so I will have no more blue eyes crying in the rain; because of why doe it not work on Wayland

That's a Willie Nelson Joke if it went over anyone's head...


GNOME 3 was fun until they took away my desktop icons and shortcuts!